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201255 minPGdocumentary

5.9/ 10(168 ratings)• TMDB

Wartime Farm

201255 minPGdocumentary

5.9/ 10(168 ratings)• TMDB

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn operate Manor Farm in Hampshire as it would have been during World War II.

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Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn operate Manor Farm in Hampshire as it would have been during World War II.

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Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn turn back the clock to run Manor Farm in Hampshire exactly as it would have been during World War II.

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